Sharpe's Opinion
Wednesday, 24th Jun, 2009
A brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot
Charlie Jane Anders reviews Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’.
And the true genius of Transformers: ROTF is that Bay has put all of this excess of imagery and random ideas at the service of the most pandering movie genre there is: the summer movie. ROTF is like twenty summer movies, with unrelated storylines, smushed together into one crazy whole. You try in vain to understand how the pieces fit, you stare into the cracks between the narrative strands, until the cracks become chasms and the chasms become an abyss into which you stare until it looks deep into your own soul, and then you go insane.
Well worth reading to the end. This may be the best film review ever. Well, apart from Mark Kermode’s seminal tirade against Pirates of the Caribbean 3, of course.
Comments
Ahh, but the difference is that I like watching the world being mindlessly destroyed by Roland Emmerich. He just has a knack for it.
Robots hitting each other under the gaze of Michael Bay simply cannot compare.
“ROTF is like twenty summer movies, with unrelated storylines, smushed together into one crazy whole.”
Ah, but just wait until ‘2012’ hits cinemas. Emmerich can top it, Im confident of that….
JuliaM
June 25, 2009 at 5:35 am